What happens if we reply to a "do not reply" mail?
Once it happened with me. Accidentally, I replied to a do not reply mail where in reality I had to pick up an email address mentioned in the mail and then address it.I got a mail back from maildemon saying... "Your mail could not be delivered."On other instances, I think it depends upon the mailbox configuration at the server. If the system admin wants he can have maildemon revert with the above mail, if he doesn't he can set rules regarding automatic deletion for it.So, even if maildemon doesnt reply in all probability the mail has reached the donotreply mailbox, but there is no one sitting to read that mail.Source: Have worked with IT Professionals
What would actually happen if you replied to a no-reply email?
My company produces a marketing automation system. Like most companies we try hard to be lean - prioritising features by what is causing us the most pain.For several years this meant we did not have an auto-responder. All replies to any of our no-reply emails went to my personal inbox where I sorted out the spam from valid emails and did my best to sound like a robot when replying.That address got a lot of emails. Most were straight spam. Many were ‘please verify you are a human’, out-of-office or other such autoreplies. A fair number were ‘please take me off this list’ or ‘please update your email address for me’ (all emails had unsubscribe links but some people must’ve missed it).That accounted for maybe 99% of incoming emails. The rest were handwritten. Of those the majority were accidents - hitting reply instead of forward. However perhaps one in five hundred incoming messages was a valid handwritten response which I’d then deal with.Even with really good filters it did not take very long before I found this to be an annoying waste of time and had a developer make a simple auto-responder. I suspect most other companies went through a similar situation - they try to read the replies but it just gets overwhelming and eventually they put an auto-reply on.
What happens if you reply to a "do not reply" email?
I've always wondered what happens. One of my ideas was that it might break the email server or something. I always get emails from Yahoo that say "Please do not respond to this email. This is a service email." Something bad must happen to them 'cause they say "please". It's almost like they're begging me not to; I can practically hear the hysteria in their voices.
What happens if you reply to an email sent by a "noreply@something.com"?
AFAIK, it won't bounce. You'll most probably get an automated reply right away. And your email will go unnoticed.
Is it safe to open an email sent by "noreply"?
Maybe.Many companies send out e-mail with a “no-reply” return email address for advertising, responding to your inquiries, or generic “all customer” messages. So long as you either solicited the message or recognize both the company (and see a matching corporate “no return” corporate email (for example no-reply@apple.com) it’s probably a safe message. When in doubt, go directly to the company (not via an included link) and ask why they needed your contact or were sending a message via their direct contact options.But if the message is “out of the blue”, from a company you’ve never heard of, has an address link that doesn’t match their corporate address (for example: imasucker@fooledyou.com claiming to be Apple) the letter should be trashed unread. Again if your really worried, go to the web page of the company directly never using a link in the message.Your best defense is never give your personal data unless you have initiated the contact with the company and are on their secured page.
What happens when you reply to a no-reply text?
In most cases, the text goes to an box that is not monitored at all. You can send them the Meaning to Life and it would simply go to an ever growing message box to be **lost for all eternity. You may also get an automated undeliverable message/response after a few seconds or minutes. This is the most likely scenario.With that same previous scenario in mind, you’ll send an text to a non-monitored number, but you’ll get an automated response back. The response will say that you’ve responded to a phone number that’s not monitored or accepting texts. Again the text you sent will be **lost for all eternity. Every so often this happens.Truthfully, any message box your text goes to will likely be dumped every couple days, if it even actually collects messages to begin with.**Lost for all eternity because the email account will likely be deleted in its entirety rather than anyone every going through it for any reason.
What happens when you reply to spam email?
James Veitch has delivered an entire TED talk to answer this exact question.Check it out. The way he presents it is hilarious!
What happens if you reply to an email from Google?
The email is printed out and the hard copy is fed directly into a secure document shredder.The shredded bits are then burned in a furnace and the resulting energy is used to power a Google datacenter.NB: not really: they either bounce or go to a mailbox that just deletes them
When you receive an email with "noreply@xyz.com", does this mean there is no system in place for a reply?
Hi,The e-mail address which comes from a computer that automatically sends the newsletters, but can not receive any answers have the pattern as noreply@domain.com. Basically these emails are either Transactional, Notificational, Event based triggered Emails with are only for your information (FYI).There are also variants such asno-reply@example.com do.not.reply@example.com do.not.answer@example.comFor sending commercial mailings in the Netherlands it is not allowed to use a noreply e-mail address.Cheers!
When should you use a do not reply email address?
There is a legitimate use for a do-not-reply email address, for example when you are sending a transactional email that does not need a confirmation (i.e. new account creation or an order confirmation). The reason for it is simple - if you've ever sent emails to hundreds, thousands or even millions of recipients, you'll invariably see large numbers bouncebacks (think about 20% depending on what type of audience - B2B or B2C/free email addresses - you send to) for one reason or another -- out of office replies, mailbox full, greylisting and/or spam filtering by receiver's ISP, all sorts of 500 and 400 errors that get bounced back to the sending mailbox. Even if you use a "reply to" address in your email header, you'll still see a good number of replies depending on the receiving mail system. It's easier (and won't overwhelm *your* mailserver which has to process those bounces) to route the bounces to /dev/null and only respond to the inquiries that have taken an affirmative action to communicate with you.